I am a student at Bay of Islands College in Kawakawa, New Zealand. This is a place where I share my learning.
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Experimental Probability
We as a class did an experiment. We all got in a group of 2 or 3 and made 10 groups. We all had one person who would roll a fair dice and another person to record all the numbers shown on the dice. The total number of rolls we had to do was 60 but added together all of our rolls would come to 600. Mathematically we expected 100 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s. But the end result was far from our predictions because there were answers that were above 100 and below 100. If you were to roll it 6000 times you would mathematically expect 1000 of each number but it would come out different. The higher the number is the closer all the numbers are to the mathematical prediction. We ended up making a graph on google spreadsheet to show our answers. Here is mine that I made.

Friday, 23 August 2019
Table Diagram
We made a table with all the possible outcomes when you roll 2 dice. We added some probability questions to make it that bit harder. Here is my work.
- All possible outcomes = 36
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b) Total most likely = 7
c) The P. of answer b = 6 out of 36 = ⅙
d) The P. of getting a total of ten = 3 out of 36 = 1 out of 12
e) The P. of getting an even = ½
f) The P. of getting a number lower than 5 = ⅙
g) The P. of not a total of eleven = 34 out of 36
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B) Most likely = 1
C) P. difference of 3 = ⅙
D) P. difference of 0 = ⅙
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Tree Diagram 1
Today we have learned and worked with tree diagrams. Our first diagram included 3 ice creams with two toppings. We made a tree diagram including all the possible ice cream and topping combination. Here is my tree diagram with a main course and desert.
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Probability 2
Today we have worked with the app 'Word Art'. We had to put as many key words we have used for probability and add them onto our word art An example of probability would be if you were to flip a coin what is the probability that you will get a heads. It would be a 50/50 chance because there are only two sides on a coin. Here is my word art that I made.
Tuesday, 6 August 2019
Probability
In maths I have been learning about probability and the likelihood of things happening. So far I know heaps of the vocab you would use while using or doing probability such as impossible, Highly unlikely, likely even and certain. Here is my number line with some words of probability on it.
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